Data breaches at health and medical facilities are increasing day by day. Another data breach has occurred at a medical facility and this time personal details of hundreds of thousands of people at Boys Town National Research Hospital have been exposed. This is considered to be the largest data breach ever reported by a pediatric...

A recent cryptocurrency project that had become victim to a cyberattack is KickICO – which is an initial coin offering (ICO) support platform. KICK’s security breach occurred when the attackers managed to attain access to the account of the KickCoin (KICK) token smart contract on the KICKICO platform. The attackers gained control of the project’s...

The web browsers Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome are working to reduce the amount of memory and other resources used by them. The browsers thrust a large burden on your phone or laptop. When the websites are getting bigger and browsers are adding up more features it makes them like full-fledged operating systems than simply...

A new Spectre attack dubbed as NetSpectre was discovered by a team of security researchers which could be launched over the network without running any local code. It is not like other Spectre variants which needs an attacker to run code locally on the target system. The new remote side-channel attack is related to Spectre...

Recently Apple has banned cryptocurrency mining apps from their App store. Similarly Google has also updated their Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users’ devices in the background. But there are still numeours cryptocurrency mining app such as MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, and Crypto Miner available on the Play...

People in today’s world make most or all of the payments using credit cards. The users keep their credit card details with them and would not give them out to strangers because today there are lots of credit card frauds happening. Imagine a situation where someone could steal your credit card details just by standing...

Google has launched Titan Security Keys at the Google Cloud Next ’18 convention in San Francisco. Titan Security Key is Google’s own hardware security keys for two factor authentication. It is a tiny USB device which is similar to Yubico’s YubiKey offering hardware-based two-factor authentication for your online accounts providing the user with highest level...

Microsoft has released its command-line shell and scripting language PowerShell Core for Linux operating system as a Snap package which makes it easier for Linux users to install Microsoft PowerShell on their system. PowerShell Core is a cross-platform version of Windows PowerShell that is already available for Windows, macOS, and Linux OS and has been...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in its Tomcat application server. One of the vulnerability could even permit a remote attacker to gain access and obtain sensitive information. Apache Tomcat is the most widely used open source web application server and servlet system making use of numerous Java...

From 24th July onwards, Google Chrome will significantly mark all non-HTTPS websites as ‘Not secure’ in order to secure the web for Internet users. At present Chrome displays a neutral information icon and marks HTTPS-encrypted sites with a green lock icon and “Secure” sign. But with the version 68 released now, the browser will warn...